Return to homepage About Caroline Kampfraath Daily life: the work of Caroline Kampfraath The vision on daily life of Dutch sculptor Caroline Kampfraath drives her work. Any human being, at any point in history until today, will develop expectations. Many expectations will remain unfulfilled, despite striving and invested energy. Anxiety is bound to develop, from humble to stressful levels. The confrontation with those feelings is unavoidable. This vision precipitates in sculptures, installations and drawings. Her work is conceptual and symbolic. It addresses human fears and unfulfilled expectations. She uses different sorts of materials, such as natural and artificial resin, lead, plaster, glass, bronze and stone, as well as objects of daily life. Her work amplifies the big life events, as does the foetus in “So what if I play and fall”; it mirrors change, symbolised by the once trendy, now controversial fox fur in “Damage”; it lends perspective to our expectations, with the ultimate waiting expressed in “Waiting for a whisper”. Elements such as tables, coat hangers and ironed shirts symbolise the daily environment in which these fundamental emotions take place. With her work, she pushes the buttons that all of us carry within us and that sometimes break through the surface into the open. The use of daily life objects in her pieces brings the expectations and disillusions close to you, the spectator, even if you have not experienced them yourself.
Caroline Kampfraath (Velsen, The Netherlands, 1960)
Education
1979 - 1986 Law Student, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
1980 - 1985 Masterclass modeldrawing and grafic techniques by artist in Groningen
1986 - 1989 Ruudt Wackers Art Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1988 - 1989 Masterclass "marble" in Pietrasanta, Italy
Working experience
1990 - 1995 Living and working in London, Brussels and Amsterdam
1990 - 1993 Private teacher sculpt
1990 - 2000 Teacher sculpt and modeldrawing, Wackers Academie, Amsterdam
1996 - present Artistic trainer at team-buildingsessions
2002 - present Teacher sculpt at the Laren School of Art
Specific jobs
1994 Wallsculpture Primary School, Brussels, Belgium
1995 Gravesculpture, cemetry Zorgvliedt, Amsterdam
1996 Tombstone, cemetry 't Groene Kerkje, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
1990 - present Bronze portraits for companies and individuals, see "portraits in bronze".
Reactions and information:
Caroline Kampfraath
Tel.+31 20 6381887
Mail: eckampfraath@zonnet.nl
Caroline Kampfraath can be found at the site of Galerie Vieleers and some Dutch Art sites (see Dutch version of this page).